UN INITIATIVE ON MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

Early day motion 578, tabled 19 October 2016 by Caroline Lucas (Green). Signed by 51 members.

That this House notes that the UN Open-ended working group on Nuclear Disarmament concluded with the submission of a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly which calls for a conference to be convened in 2017 with a view to negotiating a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination; welcomes this proposal as a positive steps towards achieving the aim of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and of successive UK Governments of a world without nuclear weapons; and calls on the Government to participate fully in these discussions at the UN and encourage all other nations to do the same.

Signatures by party: Scottish National Party 32, Labour 9, Plaid Cymru 3, Independent 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Green 1, Labour/Co-operative 1, Liberal Democrat 1.